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Welcome to The Repair Shop,
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where cherished family heirlooms are
brought back to life...
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This is the workshop of dreams.
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..home to furniture restorer
Jay Blades.
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Nowadays, everybody spends a fortune
on stuff that, once it's broken,
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they just bin it. But everybody has
something that means too much to be
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thrown away,
and that's where we come in.
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Working alongside Jay will be some
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of the country's leading
craftspeople...
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Every piece has its own story.
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It's amazing to think that some of
my work becomes part of that story.
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I've always played with things,
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I've always repaired things,
and I just love it.
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There is a real pleasure in bringing
people's pieces back to life again.
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..each with their own
unique set of skills.
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The right tool for the right job.
They will resurrect...
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revive... I'm warm, man!
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..and rejuvenate
treasured possessions
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and irreplaceable pieces
of family history...
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Wow, she's fantastic!
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..bringing both the objects...
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Oh! This is what I remember.
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..and the memories that they hold...
Wow! ..back to life.
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Oh, my God!
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In The Repair Shop today, it's a
team effort to revive a modern
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design classic...
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Hold on, hold on, hold on.
I can see it.
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That's it. Yeah, do that one next.
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Who do you reckon's going to get
to the end first? Well, I think...
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I think I've got my money on Jay.
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..and something to test the skills
of antique photography expert
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Brenton. It's a box of bits...
A box of bits. ..at the moment.
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What do you reckon?
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But first, The Repair Shop is about
to take receipt
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of a very special item.
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Hello, you all right?
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Yes, thank you.
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Natalie Cumming from Shropshire
is here
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with a precious family heirloom.
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So, what is this, then?
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It's a violin. It's a violin, yeah?
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Restorer John Dilworth
is a violin specialist.
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He's worked on some of the world's
most valuable instruments.
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It's in a pretty poor condition.
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There we go.
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Wow! Yeah, that's seen better days.
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A slight obvious problem there,
yeah. There is a bit, isn't there?
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So, what's the story behind this,
then?
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Well, the violin belonged to my
grandfather
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and it was passed to my aunt,
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who was sent
to Auschwitz in 1939.
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That's some history.
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My Aunt Rosa is a very well-known
violinist,
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and she was invited to play
in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
in the mid-30s.
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Unfortunately, being Jewish,
she was arrested,
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and they were all sent to Mauthausen
Concentration Camp.
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And then, in 1939,
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Auschwitz was opened and she was
immediately transported there.
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Because she played the violin
and she played very well indeed,
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that was her lifeline.
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She was able to be part of the
women's orchestra in Auschwitz,
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which lulled the new intakes
coming in
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to a false sense of security.
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This was what kept her alive
for the whole of the war,
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then she finally returned home
to Leeds, and she died in '47.
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The violin then passed to Natalie's
father, also a musician.
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He didn't just use the violin
as a means to making a living,
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he lived the violin.
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That was his life.
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And, fortunately,
I've got those memories.
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That's what the violin
represents to me.
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I'm afraid it's just stayed in the
attic all these years
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and never been played.
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Well, this was, I'm sure,
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made in Germany towards the end
of the 19th century.
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Mm-hmm. But this is rather alarming,
isn't it?
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I would think that that damage
probably occurred in the camps. Yes.
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Oh, that's... Yes. So someone's
repaired this, then,
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is that correct? Yeah, it's a very
crude repair, I'm afraid.
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Yeah, that is, yes.
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It would just be so great
if it could be restored.
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If it could be played again,
it would be such a bonus. OK.
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John's been restoring
violins for decades,
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but even the most seasoned of
craftsmen would feel apprehensive
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handling an instrument with such
an incredible history.
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The first job is to
take the top off,
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open up the instrument, so I can
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actually see what's
going on underneath.
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This is where you find out whether
it's going to be an easy job
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or a...or a tricky one.
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You have to find out which way
the wood is splitting,
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and if the wood is splitting
in your favour, that's great.
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Hmm.
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OK. Plan B,
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we're going to go round the other
way and attack from the other side.
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Ah! You winning? Yeah.
Yes, you're winning.
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There it goes.
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Hang on. I can't look.
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I can't look, either!
You can't look?!
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Yeah. Oh! There we go.
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It's finally given way.
This, actually...
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this little hole here,
there's a lot more original wood
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surviving underneath that patch
than I feared. OK.
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So we can take that off... Yeah.
..fill that hole,
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but if this repair was actually
done in the prison camp,
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I'd rather keep this piece and
just fix it, so that it's... Yeah.
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Make it look good. ..it fits better.
What's this? Just a bit of fluff?
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Well, that is known in the trade
as the mouse. The mouse?
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The mouse, yeah.
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That's just accumulated bow hair and
all sorts of things, odds and ends.
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And some people collect them,
and when they make a new violin,
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they'll put that inside,
just for luck.
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Next into The Repair Shop...
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How do you do, gents? I'm Phil.
..Phil Jones has brought a piece of
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his family history for Will
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and antique photography expert
Brendan West.
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So, what's in the box?
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This is my great grandad's
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old plate camera.
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As you can see,
it's a bit worse for wear.
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It looks more like a box of wood.
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It's a box of bits. A box of bits.
It's a box of bits at the moment.
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There's a lot of bits.
There's a lot of bits.
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Excellent. What do you reckon?
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So, this is a half plate camera from
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the turn of the last century,
so 1900, 1910, something like that.
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Yeah. My great grandad used to take
pictures for the War Department...
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OK. ..during World War I. OK.
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He was... That's his belt buckle
off his military belt.
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Oh, wow, that's nice. That went
through World War I with him.
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Really?! Yeah. The Battle of Hill 62
at Ypres, and...
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So this has actually
seen the trenches?
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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Really?
It's been in the trenches. Wow!
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So if that's been to Northern
France, it's in good condition,
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isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. I would like,
in an ideal world, to use it again.
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If not, just to have it
displayed properly.
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Lovely. OK? Well, we'll get cracking
with that, and we'll give you a call
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once it's ready. Thanks very much.
Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you.
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Cheers. Thank you. Bye-bye.
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Brenton's been overhauling antique
cameras for over a decade,
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but this 110-year-old example
is really going to test him.
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So we're going to be taking
the bellows from this camera...
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..carefully, so that we can have
a pattern for remaking them.
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There we go.
So, that's your bellows.
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Got holes in them everywhere, and if
you held them up to the light,
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they'd probably leak light
like a sieve,
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which is not very good
for photography.
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Over on his workbench,
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John is cooking up a plan to
revitalise Natalie's beloved violin.
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This is my mother-in-law's
old bain-marie.
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It's been in our family
for generations.
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This is the hot melted glue.
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The violin's long and arduous life,
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which included spending the war
in a concentration camp,
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has taken its toll.
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This rib, that was, I believe,
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donated to the violin while it was
in the prison camp from another
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instrument. I would like to keep
this as part of the violin now.
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You know, cos it's part
of its history.
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While the body recovers
from its structural surgery,
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John turns his attention to
repairing the damage to the top...
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The whole thing's resonating nicely.
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..before the two parts can be
married back together again.
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As I say, once we start gluing,
we're committed.
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And we want a good,
strong joint here,
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especially at the neck,
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because that's what determines
everything about the instrument.
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It won't be until John has completed
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the restoration that he'll find out
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if his repairs have also restored
the violin's voice.
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If you get any stage of this wrong,
it'll compromise the sound.
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Getting everything
in correct alignment,
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getting all the tensions even,
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all adds up in the end to giving
the instrument
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the right voice, the right sound.
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With the repairs dry, John can press
on with his sensitive renovation.
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The next thing to do
is the fingerboard.
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And this, I think,
is very moving, really.
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You can actually see fingerprints in
it, and to think that was happening
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in the prison camp and all through
the long history of the violin.
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But, unfortunately, that's all got
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to be smoothed out
to make it playable.
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It's...quite an emotional thing,
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getting rid of these...
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the last traces of the family
that have owned it.
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It's now ready to play on
for another 100 years or more.
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A new item is on its way
into The Repair Shop.
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Hello. Hi.
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Chris and Tim have brought something
that's got Will and Steve scratching
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their heads. Right. Right.
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What have we got? I'll take that.
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Right. It's a screen, but obviously
it's seen better days.
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So it stands on its end... Yes.
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..and you have to have it,
obviously, in a sort of...
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Snake. Snake - good word, yeah.
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To keep it from falling over.
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Yeah. So you can hide things behind
it, you can divide a room with it.
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I mean, you could do that
tantalising French fan dancer, dance
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about behind it, and get changed
behind it if you want to!
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I've got an image of Steve doing
that! I'm guessing more of a room
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divider kind of thing, or
hiding your big TV, or something!
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Ah, yes. It's articulated
and it's wired together.
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So there's wires running through the
whole of it from one end
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to the other? Yeah. And this has
broken off?
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Yeah. Is there anything else
that's broken?
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There's a piece of damage on one of
the ends.
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One of the end pieces
has snapped off.
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Oh, I think I've just found
the broken piece here.
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There it is, yeah. Right.
Whereabouts did you get it from?
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Well, it's not ours... OK.
..it's our daughter Rosie's.
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When Rosie was a student in London,
about 13 years ago,
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there was a chap throwing it out and
it was on the pavement, and she
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asked the chap if she could take it.
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So he said, "Well, you can
have it for six quid."
LAUGHTER
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And, being a student, you know, six
quid was a lot of money, but she
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gave it to him because she just
loved it, and to make it so it will
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last and it won't degenerate
into a pile of firewood, you know,
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it would just be fab for her.
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It transpires the screen that was
destined to be scrapped is, in fact,
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the creation of Finnish architect
and designer Alvar Aalto.
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He is considered by many to be
a pioneer of 20th-century design.
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Ready?
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That is really stiff wire, isn't it?
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Really stiff wire. It's no wonder
it's pulling through.
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On that end there, that...
It's really, really tight.
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It's actually ripping through
this section, isn't it?
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Yeah. OK, what I'll do is, I'm going
to try to force this flat.
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It's going to break in places, but
if you can order or get me some
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wire... Yeah. ..I can make a start
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on the woodwork and then take it
from there.
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OK, I'll get that sorted for you.
Thank you.
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Thanks, Steve.
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Over on his workbench,
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Brenton's about to make a new screen
for the World War I camera.
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This is a clear piece of glass,
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and what I've got to do is, I've got
to grind one side of it
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to make it opaque.
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It needs to be opaque because this
screen,
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the equivalent of a viewfinder,
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is what the image is projected onto
when taking a picture.
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You just start
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to make circular motions.
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So this process takes
about half an hour.
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You feel it in your hand - it's like
sand, very fine sand.
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You can actually feel it
grinding the glass.
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And that's looking quite good.
As soon as that's dried off...
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It looks pretty good to me.
Yeah, that's good.
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Excellent. So that goes in there.
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Perfect.
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To make sure the light hits
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Brenton's newly created plate
correctly,
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his next job is to get
the mechanism working.
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So I've just cleaned this shutter up
and it hasn't been shot for probably
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100 years. So the next thing to do
now is to fire it and see if we're
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going to get an activation...
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..and brilliantly, we do.
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Wow!
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While Brenton overhauls the
100-year-old mechanism,
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The Repair Shop's leather expert,
Suzie, is working on a secret
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project for the camera's owner,
Phil.
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He brought a belt buckle
that belonged to his relative,
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that he'd had in the war, and we
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thought it would be a nice idea
as a surprise
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to make the belt buckle up
into a usable belt for him.
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What I'm doing here is staining
the edge of the leather.
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And the key is not to drip the edge
stain down.
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Meanwhile, repairs are underway
on a more contemporary classic.
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Having sanded the screen's 82 slats
three times each side,
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then polishing and
varnishing them both sides,
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Will can now turn his attention
to the broken piece.
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I found some pine which sort of
matches pretty closely to the piece
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that I need. So I'm just working out
a way to join both pieces together.
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Now comes the task of transforming
the individual slats
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back into a Nordic design classic.
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Are you ready?
Have you got the wire? I have, look.
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Let's give it a whirl.
Now, let me just get this right.
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Steve, you're going to feed his wire
through this? Yeah. All right,
let's see this. Let us begin.
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Hold on, I've got
to find this hole first.
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Well, that's the thick one. Come on,
I'm in the lead.
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That's it. OK, Steve, it's not
a race, you're not going to win
anything!
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I'm just doing it! I just...
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Give me, give me some of that.
Yeah, go, go. Thanks for taking
over, Jay.
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You're more than welcome, sir.
You're more than welcome. That's it.
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, we've missed one,
we've missed one. Missed two.
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Why don't have some sort of rhythm
going, like... Yeah. .."heave-ho,"
or something?
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Then you could do it in time.
I totally agree with you.
LAUGHTER
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At the beginning we didn't
have a rhythm,
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but now we're like the Commodores.
LAUGHTER
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No, no, Steve's got it.
Look, look, look. Yeah!
LAUGHTER
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Yay! He won. I let him win.
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Antique photography expert Brenton
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has been overhauling
a century-old camera.
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He's refurbished
all the components,
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now all he has to do is build
a working camera from them.
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So it's a bit of a jigsaw puzzle.
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I just start at the bottom
and work my way up.
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Oh, there we go.
I didn't think that
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was going to fit for a minute.
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Yeah, that's good.
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The 100-year-old camera is rebuilt,
but will it work?
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Guys, we're going to take a picture.
Are you ready?
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Luckily, there's a motley crew of
models on hand to test it on.
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So, just there you want us, yeah?
Yeah, if you could just line up.
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We'll line up along there.
Line up along there.
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What a pretty bunch.
Is it, stay very still?
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You'll have to keep quite still,
yeah, please.
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Shall we pose? You look beautiful.
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You don't have to do anything
for a second.
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OK. Are you ready, guys?
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Yeah. OK, three, two, one...
CAMERA CLICKS
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Oh, God! Fingers crossed, that's it.
Yes! Thank you, thank you.
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You got that photo, yeah?
Yeah. Keep...
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Ho-ho-ho! Guys, have a look at this.
Come and see this photo.
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What have you got?
That looks old time, innit?
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Wow! Oh, look at that!
Wow! That is absolutely brilliant.
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It's amazing. That's right, an old
lens makes you look old-fashioned.
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Yeah. I actually look like I'm a
time traveller compared to you guys.
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Like, how can someone in those times
have such white teeth?
LAUGHTER
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Or such knobbly knees.
Knobbly knees?! Yeah.
LAUGHTER
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Phil Jones came to The Repair Shop,
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longing to take pictures with his
great-grandfather's camera.
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How are we doing, Phil? Mr Blades,
sir. You all right? Yeah. Let's go.
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Brenton, nice to see you again.
Nice to see you.
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What was it like when you dropped it
off? Oh, it was a box of bits.
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So, would you like to have a look?
I would, yeah.
LAUGHTER
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OK. There is your camera, sir.
Oh, my God!
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Wow!
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It is absolutely amazing.
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That's brilliant. Do you want
to have a look? Yeah.
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I don't want to drop it!
LAUGHTER
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And it all works. The shutter works,
everything works on it.
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That's amazing. Absolutely amazing.
I can't believe you did it.
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I'm glad you like it.
334
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Thank you very much, sir.
No problem at all.
335
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So, how does it feel to have it all
restored and working?
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I...
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I'm lost for words.
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I did not think it would be done.
I was expecting a phone call,
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saying, "Look, we had a go..."
LAUGHTER
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"..but..." But you're forgetting
where you've come to -
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this is The Repair Shop, mate. Yeah?
We can't give you that phone call.
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It's working as well! Oh, I'm...
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I'm amazed. And we've got one more
little thing for you.
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What's that? Well, when you came in,
you left us a belt buckle.
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I said to the missus when I left it
here, you know, I said,
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"I left it with my photographs..."
Oh, my God! Suzie...
LAUGHTER
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Suzie had the idea of making a belt
for you.
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Wow! So that's your buckle, and
that's Suzie's belt she made you.
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That's...that's beautiful!
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Thank you very much. Oh, bless you.
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Brenton, thanks for everything -
the belt, the camera.
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It's been a pleasure.
Chuffed to bits, chuffed to bits.
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I'm glad you're pleased. Yeah,
that's... Really, really good.
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I'm amazed.
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I feel...totally shell-shocked.
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I'm just amazed at the work
that they've done.
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I did not think it could ever
turn out that good.
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And when I saw this belt...
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it...
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I got a bit emotional. But, erm...
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this is something I'm going to
treasure.
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I'm going to keep it forever.
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Will and Steve have reached a
crucial stage with the classic
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mid-century screen...
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Righty-ho, here we go.
366
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..tightening the wires that keep the
82 individual slats together.
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So, if I pull this tight...
HE GROANS
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If I'm just tensioning...
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Too tight and the screen won't be
flexible enough to stand up.
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Too loose and the screen
will simply fall over.
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That should be it. Is it in?
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Yeah. Perfect.
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That's good. That's good, yeah.
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Now we can tighten it,
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tension it even more the other
side with the key. Yeah.
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But not too much tension. You keep
on putting too much of this tension
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on and it's causing some tension
with me.
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Don't worry about it, my boy. You're
making me feel tense. I'm sorry.
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OK, moment of truth.
Moment of truth.
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Do you know, it's all going to go,
"Whoa!", like this.
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LAUGHTER
It's not going to, Steve,
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especially with that tension
you've been putting on it.
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I'm really happy with that. That's
fantastic. It's great, isn't it?
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Yeah. Yeah? Wahey!
385
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Erm, Steve? Yes?
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I don't know if you can...
LAUGHTER
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Yeah?
LAUGHTER
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Chris and Tim are back, this time
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with the screen's owner -
their daughter, Rosie.
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I'm a little bit excited, but also
a bit nervous, because it wasn't
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in the best condition,
and I know it wasn't.
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So, yeah, I'm just full of
trepidation, really.
393
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Hello. Hiya. So, Rosie, I've heard
a lot about you and your screen.
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Have you ever had
a chance to actually use it?
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No. I'm already very surprised
to see
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that you've got something flat
underneath...
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Well, you know. ..the red sheets.
LAUGHTER
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Would you like to have a look?
Yes, please! OK.
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Oh, my God! Look at that!
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LAUGHTER
401
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No! Come and have a look.
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00:23:18,560 --> 00:23:22,040
It's not the same one, is it?
Shall we stand it up? Shall we?
403
00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:24,120
Yeah. Yeah, let's. Ready?
404
00:23:29,960 --> 00:23:32,840
Oh, look at that! Oh, I can't
believe that!
405
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Look at it, it's undulating at last!
LAUGHTER
406
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I can't believe it.
It looks amazing.
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00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:42,320
So, are you going to use it now?
Yes, please. Yeah?
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Yes, yes, I think that would
be very nice.
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I'm so happy for you.
That's wonderful.
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I can't believe that I managed to
get hold of something as beautiful
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as this. I just never, ever imagined
that it would ever look like that,
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so I'm really thrilled.
It's such a transformation.
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Over at John's desk, he's
fine-tuning Natalie's violin,
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which survived the war in a
concentration camp
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with her aunt Rosa, before being
played professionally by her father.
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That looks nice, John. Hello, Jay.
417
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You all right? Yeah. How are you
getting on? Well, it's job done.
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So, have you finished then? Yeah.
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So the last thing to do is put
the mouse in, isn't it?
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Yes, yeah, I guess so.
421
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This little ball of fluff had been
gradually building up
422
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over the 100-odd years
since it was made,
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so it seems appropriate
to pop it back in.
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In you go. Back home. There you go.
425
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The mouse has gone home, yeah,
And the violin is finished.
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John's labour of love is complete.
427
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The violin has passed down
the family line,
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sustaining knocks and patches
throughout its turbulent history,
429
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and in recent years had fallen
into total disrepair.
430
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But John's biggest test remains -
431
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has he got the violin looking and
sounding as Natalie remembers?
432
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:15,240
Hello, Natalie. Hello.
How you doing? All right, thank you.
433
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Nice to see you. Likewise. You've
come for your violin? Yes, please.
434
00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:20,000
John? Natalie's here.
435
00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:25,680
Hello, John. Hello, Natalie. Lovely
to see you again. Yes, and you.
436
00:25:30,360 --> 00:25:33,480
There it is. Wow.
All in one piece again.
437
00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,000
It looks lovely, doesn't it?
438
00:25:37,000 --> 00:25:39,160
Yes, we've put all the bits
and pieces back in.
439
00:25:39,160 --> 00:25:42,400
And those parts there...
That was the main challenge.
440
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,960
I've kept the pieces that were put
in. What a wonderful job.
441
00:25:45,960 --> 00:25:49,560
When was the last time you heard it
played? Well, before my father died,
442
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which...he died in 1983 or '84.
443
00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:55,760
So, what do you remember most fondly
of your dad's playing?
444
00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:57,520
He loved the Hungarian music,
445
00:25:57,520 --> 00:26:00,800
the cigany violin music,
that kind of thing. Wonderful.
446
00:26:00,800 --> 00:26:04,400
So we do have someone who can play
it. Chris, if you don't mind?
447
00:26:04,400 --> 00:26:07,360
The honour of playing the violin
for the first time
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since Natalie's father falls to one
of the country's leading violinists.
449
00:26:11,800 --> 00:26:14,760
John has drafted in
Christian Garrick,
450
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who has also composed
a special piece
451
00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:18,640
in honour of Natalie and her family.
452
00:26:19,640 --> 00:26:22,840
I think this is just the man to play
your fiddle for you.
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00:26:22,840 --> 00:26:25,200
It would a great pleasure.
It's very exciting.
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HE PLAYS EASTERN-FLAVOURED MELODY
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LAUGHTER
456
00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:10,960
That's wonderful.
457
00:27:10,960 --> 00:27:13,760
Absolutely wonderful.
What is that song?
458
00:27:13,760 --> 00:27:16,000
It's a wee song which
I imagined today,
459
00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:17,840
reading a bit of your history,
460
00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:20,880
and I thought we'd call it
Rosa's Wishing Waltz.
461
00:27:20,880 --> 00:27:24,160
Oh! I can't believe it.
LAUGHTER
462
00:27:24,160 --> 00:27:27,040
Thank you so much. It is wonderful.
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It is wonderful.
I don't have words to say.
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I'm beside myself. I...
You know, the history of this
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violin, I'm grateful
to be a part of it.
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It's just incredible that you've
been able to restore it as you have,
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so thank you so much.
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I'm very pleased to have been able
to help. Thank you for playing.
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That was wonderful. An honour.
Absolutely wonderful.
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I just feel overwhelmed.
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I didn't realise it would be
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restored to how I remember
it being played 30 years ago,
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and it was just beautiful -
the melody, the tone.
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I was suddenly transported back.
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I could see my father playing.
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It was beautiful, beautiful.
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Join us next time as more items
are given a new lease of life...
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